Announcer sound looping on joining

[mattman]

I am running the latest windows server on an XP Pro box behind an IPCop firewall with a cable connection. I have forwarded udp 8767 to the box running the TS Server.

I am on the lan and can connect fine and the first external user can connect fine but when another external user connects the ladies voice announcing that someone has joined just loops continuously until the person leaves.

I have tried different people as the 2 and 3 connections and it isn't related to a specific person.

Any thoughts?

Matt.

[pbarrette]

Hi mattman,

This is likely due to multiple people having:
1) Voice activation turned on, and:
2) "What you hear" or "Wave" selected as recording devices in the sound mixer.

What is probably happening is that the announcement is being broadcast by one of the users with the above settings. It is then being recieved by another user with the above settings and being rebroadcasted to all users. The first user recieves it, then rebroadcasts it back.. etc, etc.. ad infinium.

To check this, you can watch the Teamspeak window and determine who is transmitting. You will likely notice the following:

1) Person-A joins the server.
2) Person-B's light goes green and you hear "Blah joined the server"
3) Person-C's light goes green and you hear the same thing repeated.
4) Person-B's light goes green again, and again you hear the message.
5) Person-C's light goes green...

Now, Person-A and Person-C may, in fact, be the same person or they may be different people. In the end, at least 2 people's lights will go green and you will hear the message being rebroadcast.

This is also possible if the people involved are using voice-activation and also are not using headphones. In that case, the sound from the speakers is activating the user's mic and rebroadcasting the sounds that just came out of their speakers.

To prevent this, you should instruct your users to:
1) Always use a headset.
2) Use Voice-activation only after it has been properly configured and adjusted.
3) Only select the Mic or Line-In input as active in the "Recording Control" portion of the Mixer.
4) Mute the microphone and other recording devices in the "Playback" portion of the Mixer.

Basically:
If you can talk into the microphone and hear yourself in your speakers/headset, you are wrong.
If you unplug your Mic, play a wav or mp3 file and others can hear you, you are wrong.
If you are playing a game and others can hear your game sounds, you are wrong.

Hope this helps,
pb

[mattman]

Hi PB, sounds like you are right on the money.

When there is only two of us on I can hear the other player's in game sounds but he can't hear mine so it sounds like this is the problem.

Will check tonight and report back.

Cheers
Matt.

[mattman]

Thanks for your help, this was the exact problem. The two users I was testing with both had this problem. Made the changes and it works perfectly.

Cheers
Matt.